Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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